How to Read your Career Direct Results PRESENTED BY: MELINDA JONES CAREER COUNSELOR

How to Read your Career Direct Results PRESENTED BY: MELINDA JONES CAREER COUNSELOR

The Career Direct Congratulations! You have taken a proactive approach to choosing a career path and major by completing the Career Direct assessment.

The Need for Career Planning Choosing a career Choosing a major The majority of students who drop out of college do NOT have a declared major or vocational interest The average student will change majors 3 to 5 times

Results Booklet There are two reports that you will want to look at as you review your Career Direct results: Coaching Report 12 pages This report contains summary charts for the personality, interests, skills, and values sections and includes an activities, occupations, and subject scores chart. Detailed Report 24-27 pages This report contains a more detailed explanation of the personality, interests, skills, and values sections.

The Career Direct Results

Personality How am I naturally motivated to act? Coaching Report (page 3 of 12) Detailed Report (pages 8-10 of 26) Factor Those outside the mid-range are your stronger traits, and will show your natural tendency to act. These factors translate into the things you should consider in your career choice. Subfactor The more specific traits that make up a factor Those that fall in the mid-range typically exhibit a mix of behaviors

Personality Traits Compliant Pliable Conforming Tactful Dominant Assertive Independent Blunt Measures an individual s motivation to be in control of situations and people in their environment. This is important when considering work or careers. Consider: Do you want to be the boss?

Personality Traits Introverted Distant Reserved Quiet Extroverted Enthusiastic Social Verbal Measures a person s motivation to interact with others Consider: Do you want to work with people? Do you want to work in a cubicle or closed door office environment?

Personality Traits Detached Neutral Objective Questioning Compassionate Sympathetic Supportive Tolerant Measures the tendency of an individual to be caring, understanding, and accepting. Consider: Do you need harmony, warmth, and regular routines in your work or are you more practical and logical?

Personality Traits Unstructured Improvising Spontaneous Indifferent Measures the motivation of a person to be accurate, structured, and thorough Conscientious Precise Organized Achieving Consider: Do you want an organized, dependable work environment? Do you prefer to work with facts and data as key tools for the job?

Personality Traits Cautious Conservative Content Adventurous Daring Ambitious Measures the tendency of an individual to be pioneering and competitive. Consider: Are you willing to take risks to achieve your goals? Do you want security and reliability in your work or change jobs when you get bored?

Personality Traits Conventional Predictable Traditional Innovative Imaginative Clever Measures or reflects the tendency of a person to quickly envision new ideas. Consider: Will you want to do the same thing daily or different things regularly? Do you want a skill driven job or one that requires continual learning?

Coaching report (page 6 of 12) Detailed report (page 11 of 26) Use the strengths to identify the qualities that you have to offer a career. Use the weaknesses to identify areas of change that may be needed for career success. Strengths & Weaknesses

Career Implications Your personality traits are listed in order of strength, meaning the one that will impact your career the most is first. Look at the career suggestions listed under each trait and circle what is most important to you. Use the website MyPlan.com to research careers under their career database

Critical Life Issues Coaching Report (page 7 of 12) Detailed Report (page 13 of 26) Stress If you have a score in the mid to high range please identify your stress as personal or school/career related and incorporate a relaxing activity into your schedule. Consider: How is stress likely to affect my career or career path? Am I likely to burn out in a career that requires daily interaction with people or is deadline driven?

Critical Life Issues Financial Management This assesses a person s money management practices how you budget your money. Consider: Do I know how to budget money or am I likely to choose a job based on salary and not whether it is the right job for me? Indebtedness - This assesses a person s likelihood of having debt management problems Consider: Will I lose out on a job if a potential employer does a credit check on me?

General Interests Detailed Report (pages 14-15 of 26) DOING HELPING ANALYZING INFLUENCING EXPRESSING Use the chart on page 15 to identify your first five interests. Look at the categories below on page 14 and underline these five interests in their respective categories for example this person should look at an influencing, expressing, and helping career. DOING HELPING ANALYZING INFLUENCING EXPRESSING * Mechanical * Outdoors / Agriculture * Security / Enforcement * Athletics * Adventure * Service * Transportation Services * Animal Care * Consumer Science * Science / Health * Computational Financial * Technological Sciences * Management / Sales * Law / Politics * Education * Counseling * International * Religious * Performing / Communication * Writing * Artistic

Activities, Occupations, and Subjects Coaching Report (page 11 of 12 ) The occupations list is where you identify the right career for yourself. The activity and subject list are where you identify hobbies for yourself.

Skills & Abilities Detailed Report ( page 19 of 26 ) It is important to match your work to your best skills so that you may have the personal joy of doing something that comes naturally. Working in your natural strengths help you learn faster and achieve more from the same amount of effort. Is there a common theme to your skills? Do your skills relate more to your hobby than your occupation? Is there a way these activity skills could transfer to your work?

The values are your priorities as they relate to your work. Expect these to change over time as you age, gain experience in the work place, and your family situation changes (married, engaged, have children). Ask yourself these two questions often: Does my work match my needs? Does my walk (life actions) match my talk (what I say, I believe)? Values work environment, work outcome, life

Values Detailed Report (pages 21-23 of 26) *Work environment values You can be in a career field that is a good match for your interests, skills, and personality and still experience job dissatisfaction. Consider: If I value working outside will I be happy in the confines of an office? *Work outcome values It is important to decide what rewards you expect from your work. Consider: What is really important to me in my career? Is money or leadership important enough to pursue at the price of making sacrifices personally? *Life values It is important to align the way you live with your life values. Consider: What is my life purpose and how does that fit in with my career choice? How do I attain peace and fulfillment in my work?

Thank you for taking the Career Direct assessment. Ideally the assessment will help you focus on career fields for which you are ideally suited. This is not a job placement tool so you need to take responsibility for selecting the job or career field that is just right for you. If you would like to talk to a counselor about your career and how to choose a college major please contact the LU Career Center. Liberty University Career Center Hours: M-F 8:30-4:30 Phone: 434-592-4109 Email: careers@liberty.edu